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As nostalgic as I am for the 90s, A decade I lived, I am even more nostalgic for decades that I experienced by proxy through books and movies. I love to imagine myself as a mouthmaker in the 20s, drink champagne from cut cocktail glasses, spinning my long string of pearls and dancing jazz in a beaded and beaded dress. Or like a housewife in the 50s, mountain my bike in a poofy dress and suede kitten heels, my blonde buckles bouncing on my shoulders. Or as an explorer of the beginning of the century, crawling through caves in search of lost treasures and old tribes. Or as a journalist in the 70s, pressing a writing machine on the tips of the rolling stones (perhaps even toRolling stone)

It is so easy to romance the past, even if you know you know that you kiss your darling goodbye while in Switzerland in Steam on a train platform in 1941 would be heartbreaking and terrifying in real life.If you are old, Or if people often refer to you as an "old soul", you can not stop you from helping you not live in the right decade. If this is the case, you will surely connect all the following. And for a more rational catch on nostalgia, check17 things you are nostalgic but should not be.

You look less like an attractive seductive heiress the pompom of his satin dress, and more like a ghaul haunting the apartment, but wandering around the living room in a long silk night shirt makes the fantasy feel real. For why it feels so good, check the17 surprising reasons you love a lot of nostalgia.

If you are a woman, you have circle earrings from the 70s, a dress at the 50's line, a glamorous ball dress, and maybe even a mink coat ("it's not False if it's vintage, "you tell your friends of animal activists). If you are a guy, you know that straps are much sexier than belts, and you have a wool vest, a collection of cravots andfar too many Italian leather shoes.

If you are a woman, you wish secretly that you can wear a hood, but you are content with a highly important hat that you insist is totally convenient because it blocks the sun. If you are a man, you have a collection of hats that you are desperately trying to associate with jeans and a t-shirt so you do not look like to get out of a bed. You have to hit the delicate balance between you belonging to what you would not be out of place on a photo of your favorite time without looking like someone who has just wandered a costume party.

Yes, Spotify is much more convenient. And while you defend your turntable saying that "music sounds better", the truth is that it's so much a better way. There is something so throbbing to pass through old dusty discs, looking for gold, something so satisfying the physics of a vinyl record in your hands, and something hypnotic on the monitoring of the needle latch on the disk, then carefully weave around grooves and again until it stops.

Laptops are infinitely more convenient than writing machines, especially because you can make changes in real time and do not have to worry about your wife leaving a suitcase containing the only manuscript of your book to a station (*cough*HEMINGWAY*cough*) But there is something almost Jazzy about the rap-faucet sound that makes, as you have to hit each key so difficult to get the letters and the little ding that indicates that the words are about to fall on the page.

You know there are many terrible aspects of the decade you are obsessed and that society is much better for a number of demographic data. But you still can not help but start sentences with the words: "It would never happen in the old days,"Especially when it comes to the terrible abyss that is online dating.

Maybe they are just left, even fictitious, but you aspire to chivalry and glamor apparently married by older generations. There is a reason whyGeorge Clooney andScarlett JohanssonAs embodiments of the respective men and women of old Hollywood, continue to be venerated like the ideal man and woman. It helps thatThe movie stars of the 60s and 70s have laughed impeccably well And can really rock an outfit.

If the beginning of the twentieth century is your jam, the probability that you have looked atDownton Abbeyseveral times and are beyond excited thanThey finally start production on a movie version. Which means that you also know that no one throws a shadow similar to the countess of Dowager, and that you use his dry loules when the situation calls him.

After all, what is better than responding to "you 'love?" With "at my age, we must rationing his enthusiasm." Or, after hearing your friend complaining about his terrible ex for the millionth time, say, "You are a woman with a brain and a reasonable ability. Stop crying and finding something to do!"

Yes, they are archaic and sexist, but Waltzing in white dresses with beautiful men seem so much more attractive than doing with a drunk football player during a fresh evening. You will probably also attend modern bullets every chance you get, although most of them are basically a nightclub in which everyone is slightly better dressed.

Those who still contain all the furniture of the turn of the century are the best because you can walk and you briefly imagine like the Lord or the lady of the house. But, really, any excuse to escape your work of the preferred period. Shoot, the Shaker Hancock village will do in a pinch. And if you are really obsessed with the castles, here is25 Castles so magical, you will not believe that they are in the United States.

It does not matter if it is sitting at a rating of 29% on rotten tomatoes. You are not here for the plot or dialogue; You are here for the frame.

You probably went to seeSleep more A dozen times, and you were bored by friends who prevent you from feeling the opportunity to feel in the 1920s by breaking their iPhones or speaking of modern television, so you prefer to speak to the actors who are damn in the character.

Bieber? Who? You are all on the Beatles,Ella Fitzgeraldand Metallica. And you never miss an opportunity to play one of your favorite albums, sigh and say, "They do not make music like that." So you think with horror that someone is going to say one day thatJustin Bieber.

You use a feather of fountain, because you like how the ink bleeds on the page, as if the words themselves arrive directly from your veins. And when you want to write something really emotional, you prefer the actual letters by email.

"They make a big dress!" You tell your roommates because they suck you for you to say at least one pants. You want you to wear it because it is supposed to be worn, in a den, smoking a cigar, play poker and whiskey swirling in a drink while playing poker. You probably even envisioned smoking only for the optics, but you have resisted because you know thatEven having as little as a cigarette per day shortened your life.

It does not matter whether it is the Harvard Club, the Explorers Club or another private social club. The important thing is that you have a place where you and other people sharing the same ideas can separate your tuxedo and forget the reality while preparing leather armchairs for a few hours.

You have old maps like wall art, a globe bar, a collection of leather-related books, and maybe even a Berber dagger you have picked up on a flea market in Morocco. You want your owner to allow you to install an interior fireplace because, while it would be extremely impracticable, it seems so perfect between the eared armchairs where you read your adventure novels. In your smoking jacket.

Before there was technology, people entertained with the works of these authors likeJ. D. Salinger,Henry David Tholeau, andF. Scott Fitzgerald. And although you have the opportunity to quit all the latest netflix shows, you will choose sitting with Shakespeare in your study on abreaking Bad Binner any day.

Nothing captures vintage charm like a Polaroid camera. And as a real vintage fanatic, you will not be satisfied with these harmony polades they sell at Urban Outfitters. No, you need authentic - the kind that people in the 60's used and that it now costs a fortune to work. Nobody has ever said that living in the past was cheap!

It does not matter that it is an Aston Martin, a corvette, a Volkswagen beetle, a Cadillac, a roll-royce, or even a T. man model, a Delorean gets you excited. Nothing is better than when you visit a historic hotel and find out that you can visit the garage.

You asked the hairdresser for "Brigitte Bardot" but took place Elvira. Your attempts to create an elegant UPDO have let you look like MEDUSA. You have burned your hair trying to tighten properly. You have exhausted an entire hair rod to reach the 80s Rocker Chick Chic but ended up watching a surchargeThe Lion King. It's always worth it. If you are looking for an elegant, but modern, look at the15 best haircuts to look instantly younger.

It is not a question of "covering your chin". We are upon you. You also secretly think that you could totally switch a mustache and / or a monocle if it happened.

Let's be real: you have not applied to Oxford or Yale because of their impeccable academics. You did it so that you can feel as if you are part of the story and you avoided applying at any school, whatever the quality of education, whose library was built After 1925.

Even if your version of "skating" is to stand on the rink and wait until the wind blows.

You do not do itneed all the benefits of monitoring the health of a smartwatch. You prefer to have a real watch, and you are not alone, since Watch Sales is asking right now. You avoid getting an international data plan when traveling to other countries, even if it means you have to browse a new city with a folding card, as it means you can delight the thrill to lose and To discover a little coffee you do not know anything. You are secretly delighted when you are in an area that does not have a mobile phone service. Yes, it's a little out of the ordinary,But at least you are desperately addicted to social media.

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